Announcement – Option for Polling Booths in Delhi/New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata.
The next elections to the Council and the Regional Councils of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India are proposed to be held on 4th and 5th December, 2009 in cities having more than 2500 members and on 5th December, 2009 at all other places in terms of the provisions of Rule 21 of the Chartered Accountants (Election to the Council) Rules, 2006 specified by the Central Government. According to the provisions of clause (3) of Schedule 2 to Rule 6 of the aforesaid Rules, a notice is to be published giving the voters in cities having more than one polling ooth located at different addresses an opportunity to exercise their option to vote at a particular polling booth. In compliance with the same this Notice is being published for information of such voters.
It may be clarified for general information of members that the list of voters as on 1st April, 2009 is drawn, on the basis of professional addresses given by the members, and such address is taken into consideration for the purpose of allotmnt of voters to different polling booths in a city.
It has been our “endeavour” to allot the polling booth near to the professional addresses as given by the voters. It is possible that a voter might prefer to exercise his franchise at a polling booth within the same city but located near his residence/office which is not as per the Institute’s record about his professional address. This announcement helps such voters to indicate their option for a polling booth located at a place not near his professional address. For instance, based on the professional address of a voter, he would be, in the normal course, allotted a polling booth situated at `B’ place. Suppose, he prefers to exercise his franchise at `F’ place which is near his residence or office (but not his professional address), as the case may be, he is required to indicate his option for the polling booth at `F’ place in response to this announcement. Otherwise, he would be required to vote at the polling booth situated at `B’ place only. It may be noted that the option is restricted to the polling booths located in the same city only.
For the forthcoming elections to the Council and Regional Councils, it is proposed to set up more than one polling booth at different locations in Mumbai, Kolkata and Delhi/New Delhi. The addresses of the proposed polling booths in these cities are published below.
It is notified for the general information of members that any member in such a place, wishing to vote at a particular polling booth, may send his written request to the Secretary, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, ICAI Bhawan, Post Box No. 7100, Indraprastha Marg, New Delhi – 110 002, so as to reach him latest by 10th August, 2009. Request received after 10th August, 2009, shall not be entertained.
It may be mentioned that as far as Mumbai and Delhi/New Delhi are concerned, the general allocation of polling booth to voters would be done on the basis of pin-code numbers. In other words, the pin-code number corresponding to the professional address given by a member would be the basis for allocation of particular booth. The details of pin-codes proposed to be attached with each location at Mumbai and Delhi/New Delhi are given in Appendix I & II respectively for reference and general information of members.
KOLKATA:
The voters registered in Kolkata City would be divided between polling booths located at Income-tax Office and the Institute’s Office, irrespective of Pin-code numbers, as was done for the elections held in the past. Based on the requests received in the past, it is proposed to set up a polling booth at Salt Lake City as well subject to the size of preference exercised for that location.
HOW TO EXERCISE OPTION:
There is no prescribed format/application for exercising option for a particular polling booth. A member wishing to exercise his option for a particular polling booth may send his request in writing giving his name, membership number and the address of the polling booth in which he would like to be attached. Such an application should reach to the Secretary at Institute’s Headquarters latest by 10th August, 2009.
(T. Karthikeyan)
Secretary and Returning Officer
